Edmund Harry Leftwich 10 min read

'Last night, in my dreams, I was a monstrous ant, digging a burrow', and Professor Edwards wakes with aching arms and raw hands, to find fresh-dug earth in his own back yard.

Edmund H. Leftwich's 1927 story is an eerie hard-SF and horror tale of a mind possessed. Atmospheric, unsettling period SF. Read it for a creeping story, told through a lost friend's notebook, of a scientist whose strange dreams of digging begin, terrifyingly, to reach into his waking life.

In its time

Published in 1927, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

10 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).